In the dark underground palace, the air was filled with an indescribable unpleasant smell, like the smell of urine, feces and various body odors that have been fermented many times in a sealed environment. It was particularly unpleasant.
There were patches of gray-brown moss growing on the wall, and occasionally there were some ferns growing at the corners of the wall. From time to time, snakes or other monsters could be seen swimming through the moist soil at the corners of the wall.
The terrain of the underground palace is not complicated. A main road branches into several small roads. Lin Xiao has a map drawn by his predecessors during the exploration, so he is not afraid of getting lost.
As soon as they entered the underground palace, someone discovered a piece of ancient moss emitting a faint glow at the entrance of the palace. They immediately stepped forward with joy to dig it out with a shovel, and sold it to the instructor on the spot in exchange for a magic stone. Everyone was envious.
Next, everyone scanned the surroundings with great interest, hoping to discover new ancient moss, and Lin Xiao was no exception.
When the group crossed the main passage to the first intersection, just as they reached the intersection, a large black shadow suddenly fell from the top of the left passage and pounced on the leading wizard apprentice. Then black shadows pounced down from above. Lin Xiao reacted very quickly and drew his sword, cutting the approaching black shadow in half with one blow. It fell to the ground with a "bang" and was still twitching.
The sword flashed and killed four people in a row. The remaining black shadows had been killed by other wizard apprentices. They now had time to see that the black shadows were monkey-faced bats. The few people who took action rushed forward and knocked out the two big blood-sucking fangs of the monkey-faced bats with knives. This thing was valuable.
Lin Xiao killed four and dug eight, which together were worth eight magic coins, leaving two pieces to be counted as one magic stone.
As others envied him, Lin Xiao happily used a cloth to collect his blood-dripped fangs. He did not notice the strange look given to him by mentor Julian behind him.
Ten minutes later, everyone cleared out another batch of monkey-faced bats. Relying on his stronger strength and powerful fighting skills, Lin Xiao killed several of them in a row and harvested more than a dozen blood-sucking fangs.
At this moment, Mentor Julien looked at him with an expression of surprise, as well as unexpectedness, and a strange look as if he saw prey.
There are no powerful monsters in the underground palace. After all, every once in a while a wizard will come to collect the newly grown ancient moss. The monsters inside cannot live for long, so it is naturally impossible for them to become very strong.
It took them two hours to search the first floor of the underground palace, and then they began to search the second floor.
This time it was Lin Xiao's turn to take the lead. He cast an air shield spell on himself, condensing a layer of tough air that could withstand almost any type of damage from any direction in 360 degrees without blind spots. It was a pretty versatile spell, and its only drawback was that its defense was not as good as that of the same type of defensive spells.
He was ready to walk down the slippery stone steps covered with unknown moss with the other two wizard apprentices. As soon as he reached the bottom, several white shadows swooped down from the ceiling and enveloped him, and a chill that even the air shield could not block came towards him.
There are seven ghosts, two each for the three of him and the other two.
In a flash, he took the initiative to cancel the air shield on his body, and his body passed out from between the three ghosts like a spirit snake. He flicked his wrist and the sword flashed, cutting the three ghosts in half. Then his companions behind him reacted and cast three witchcraft spells to shatter the ghosts that were trying to piece together. He then slashed them with a few swords to break them into even more pieces.
After wiping his sweat off his forehead, he turned around to thank her, but his pupils shrank slightly and he almost couldn't control his expression.
Lin Xiao turned around expressionlessly, the fear in his heart was like a raging storm.
Just now, when he turned around, he happened to see Teacher Julian hugging his disciple behind the crowd and his gaze quickly returned to normal, but he saw something he couldn't believe in his quick glance.
At that moment just now, he seemed to see that Teacher Julien looked at him as if he recognized the other sons of the Divine Realm. Lin Xiao was quite familiar with that expression and that look. Coupled with the fact that he had felt something strange when he saw Teacher Julien before, a thought of surprise and fear arose in his heart.
This mentor Julian is a son of the divine realm whose race is unknown, and he has already realized the differences between himself and the natives.
At this moment, Lin Xiao didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt a chill on his back, as if a pair of eyes were fixed on him.
"We can't stay here any longer."
Regardless of whether it is confirmed or not, it is too risky to stay here, and I have to find a way to escape from the team.
No, he felt that he could no longer stay in this school.
It was too easy for a school mentor to deal with him as an apprentice. He could just transfer him to the mentor's office for any reason and kill him as easily as slaughtering a chicken, and then make up a random reason to the outside world. This was not unusual in a world where the strong were respected.
Without the support of his family, he would just die and no one would care.
Lin Xiao's mind was turning rapidly, but his eyes, expression and movements were as flawless as ever. Although he felt that this was useless, he still had to do what he had to do. After all, what if he was wrong?
It was not impossible, although the probability was less than one percent.
The team went down the stairs. In addition to the lurking ghost-faced bats on the second floor of the underground palace, ghosts also appeared from time to time.
This monster is extremely dangerous and has no benefits. It is one of the monsters they least like to encounter.
Following the second-floor main road to another intersection, Instructor Julien said:
"Wait a moment."
Everyone stopped and he said:
"There are two routes here, you're on the left and we're on the right."
"By the way, you two follow us to carry the things."
He was referring to Lin Xiao and another wizard apprentice.
"It's time to take action."
Lin Xiao's heart trembled. Julian's decisiveness caught him off guard. He had not yet thought of a way to escape.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he couldn't find any reason to refuse and could only agree.
The team split up, with several of Julian's disciples taking the lead. He waved his hand to let the pouting Ailian go aside, and waved to Lin Xiao.
He walked over reluctantly, and Julian asked with a smile,
"Where are you from?"
Lin Xiao could see the hidden coldness and cruelty in his smile, and he also knew that he was not asking where he would be reincarnated this time, but which divine civilization.
Obviously this is a digging for the truth. If the answer is wrong, there will be an immediate thunder attack.
Lin Xiao's mind turned, and he finally decided to answer honestly, pretending to be a little entangled and answered:
"Human race!"
Julian showed a hint of surprise on his face. The coldness and cruelty on his face disappeared instantly. A smile immediately appeared on his face, like a spring breeze blowing towards him. He said:
"Brother, you should have said it earlier. I almost misunderstood. I am also a human. We are all free."
When his attitude changed, Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled as Julian said,
"It turns out he's one of us. He scared me too."
His voice stopped abruptly, and Lin Xiao moved his hands faster and crossed them in front of him. A translucent white snake flew out from Julian's chest and bit him hard. With a muffled sound, Lin Xiao retreated more than ten meters and turned to run.
"Um?"
Julian was quite pleased that this attack did not miss the target. He grinned and said to the surprised disciple and another wizard apprentice beside him:
"Catch up with him and kill him on the spot!"
Although everyone was confused and the other wizard apprentice was still in a daze and didn't move, several disciples drew their weapons and chased after him without asking any questions.
Julian ignored the confused apprentice and followed with his hands behind his back and a cold smile.
"While completing the True Dark Ancestor mission, I was able to meet a human who had just arrived. What a pleasant surprise!"
On the first floor of the underground palace, Lin Xiao rushed out from the second floor and did not go straight to the exit, but rushed in another direction.
He would surely die if he walked out of the exit, as he could not outrun a real wizard. However, he remembered that there was a place on the other side of the first floor of the underground palace that had collapsed, revealing a gap buried by soil and tree roots, through which he could escape.
Fortunately, they had thoroughly swept the first floor of the underground palace and killed all the hidden monsters. Otherwise, if they encountered one while escaping, they would be discovered immediately from behind.
Less than five seconds after he reached the first floor, several of Julian's disciples rushed up. Ai Lian shouted to the other male disciples:
"Go to the exit of the underground palace immediately."
Several people walked quickly towards the exit of the underground palace, but after taking a step, Ailian suddenly stopped and listened to the other side. A hint of doubt appeared on her charming face. After thinking for a while, she walked over there.
Lin Xiao quickly rushed to the collapsed gap in his memory. He saw at a glance that there was a hole in the gap that was only big enough for a head to fit in. He could vaguely see light shining from above. He drew out his sword and rushed forward, thrusting it into the mud beside the hole and stirring it. A large piece of mud fell out.
This sword cost him two magic stones, and it was enchanted with two magic spells: solidity and sharpness. It could easily cut through stones, not to mention some soil and roots. He quickly dug out a large hole that was big enough for a person to crawl into.
Twenty seconds later, he had dug the hole wide enough to accommodate himself and was about to climb up when he suddenly stopped and looked to the other side as his ears moved. A slender figure walked out of the darkness.
Ai Lian looked at the mud on the ground and the muddy Lin Xiao, clapped her hands and said,
"It turns out there is a collapsed gap here. I was wondering why there was no one here when I caught up with him. Teacher, you are very..."
A large piece of mud wrapped in a strong wind came towards her, knocking her unfinished words back into her mouth. She pressed her waist and a layer of clear light rose up to block the flying mud. Then a huge fist followed and hit the clear light.
"boom!"
The enormous force beyond her imagination pressed down and smashed the clear light into pieces. The remaining force hit her charming face and deformed it. She tilted her head back and subconsciously activated the crystal pendant magic weapon in the deep crack of her chest. Another layer of green light rose up to form a huge eggshell light shield, but at the moment the light shield was formed, a sword flashed, and a stream of hot blood spurted out from the neatly cut white neck, and sprinkled down on the top of the green light shield, dyeing the light shield red.
The corpse fell to the ground with a thud and kept twitching. A big head rolled to the side, and there was still a trace of disbelief on the charming and beautiful face.
"madness!"
Lin Xiao snorted coldly, walked forward and fumbled back and forth on the still warm and soft corpse, pulled out a piece of jewelry from his waist, a crystal pendant on his chest, and four rings on his left and right fingers, all of which were magic weapons.
He spent two seconds collecting the spoils, then turned around and continued digging. He soon dug a hole and crawled out. Without even bothering to clean the dirt off his body, he dived into the jungle and disappeared.
(End of this chapter)